Modeling and restraining mobile virus propagation

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 529-541

  Gao, Chao ^a,b   Liu, Jiming ^a  

^a HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

adaptive dissemination; autonomy oriented computing; human mobility; Mobile networks; phone virus; preimmunization

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE DISSEMINATION; AUTONOMY-ORIENTED COMPUTING; HUMAN MOBILITY; PHONE VIRUS; PREIMMUNIZATION;

TELEPHONE SETS; VIRUSES; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

COMPUTER VIRUSES;

EID: 84872795827     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2012.29     Document Type: Article

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